Greg hits another Home Run!
By: G. Maresca
As Major League Baseball (MLB) opened its season to sunny skies with every team playing on the same day since 1937, the game’s executives seem intent on beheading the golden goose with the woke ax of the Cancel Culture.
Given the issues with two recent Georgian elections, the state’s legislature passed a bill that would strengthen the integrity and fairness of their voting laws. The MLB suits and their Democrat allies including President Biden disagreed labeling the legislation “an atrocity” and “Jim Crow.” As a result, MLB’s midseason summer classic – its annual All-Star game and amateur draft that were to take place in Atlanta – will be relocated to Colorado that has similar voting laws.
The president’s distortion of the Georgia law is intentionally divisive since he promised to unite the nation at his inauguration. Even the left leaning Washington Post awarded Biden four Pinocchio’s.
MLB’s certitude is business as usual. During last year’s abbreviated season, MLB stenciled a Marxist organization’s initials on pitching mounds leaguewide. Despite their All-Star boycott of Georgia, MLB announced an expanded television deal with China. MLB must not realize that in China they eat their bats rather than swing them.
MLB should showcase their All-Star game in Wuhan. Surely, the Uighurs in their Xinjiang province “re-education” camps would tune in. Even Secretary of State Antony Binken said China is committing genocide against the Uighurs.
The media needs to question Biden on how a law committed to voter integrity in a state that he won warrants a boycott, while communist China gets a pass.
The Georgia law will require absentee voters to provide identification when requesting and mailing in their ballot. Likewise, ballot drop boxes that were temporary during the pandemic will continue but be reduced. There were no drop boxes prior to COVID, ever.
What will MLB do when other states pass similar voter integrity laws? Stop playing games in those states? Why are any of the 81 regular season games being played in Atlanta if this law is so egregious?
Politics injecting itself into professional sports is vogue. In July 2016, the NBA pulled its All-Star Game from Charlotte, N.C. because a state law mandated that transgenders use bathrooms according to their birth gender. After the law was repealed, the NBA rewarded Charlotte their 2019 All-Star game.
Political division is nothing new, but the ridiculous and despotic reactions are. Perhaps MLB is auditioning for their future masters – the Chinese Communist Party? No need to concern yourself with voter suppression when there are no elections.
Georgia is in no way suppressing legitimate voters, but their law does make it harder for illegitimate voters – and that is the crux – for Democrats. MLB has smeared Georgia’s elected majority as racist and anti-democratic.
State officials should sue for defamation.
Here is MLB lecturing on election integrity when nothing is more fraudulent than an MLB All-Star ballot, where voting early and often is creed.
Drive to the park, buy a beer at the game and you will need identification. Producing identification is not voter suppression; it is voter certification. And you better have your immunization card updated to enter because that is next.
Sports should be apolitical, but it is the weak and craven who fail to step up to the plate and make it so. Georgia showed uncharacteristic courage for politicians something MLB and the crony and woke CEOs at Atlanta based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola severely lack.
If other legislatures and organizations would exhibit such resolve perhaps, a real examination, without the name calling about why one group has lagged behind in most metrics despite decades of unconstitutional subsidies and preferences. Then we could address some real causes: 70% children born out of wedlock, 52% of murders, 37% of abortions among a culture that is only 13% of the population where entitlement and victimization handcuff advancement while atrophying young minds.
Bureaucratic elites are in lockstep with the anti-liberty, totalitarian, Constitution-hating zealots who occupy Washington. This decision by MLB is just the latest example.
Sports is entertainment, not a political movement.
Until conservatives can boycott as effectively as leftists, expect more of the same.
Conservatives need to take a final homerun trot around the MLB bases of going, going… gone.
Good luck with your new friends, MLB.
